CVE-2026-90276

md/md-llbitmap: stop daemon timer rearm on destroy

State
Published
Severity
Not scored
Published
Sep 17, 2026
Updated
Oct 19, 2026
Reserved
Sep 11, 2026

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Description

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved:

md/md-llbitmap: stop daemon timer rearm on destroy

llbitmap_destroy() deletes pending_timer before flushing md_llbitmap_io_wq. However, daemon_work can still be queued or running after the timer has been deleted, and the daemon path can arm pending_timer again when it finds dirty chunks that are not ready to flush yet.

If that happens during teardown, pending_timer can remain armed after llbitmap is freed and later dereference freed memory.

Add a BITMAP_SHUTDOWN bit to llbitmap->flags, set it before deleting the timer, and make the timer and daemon paths stop queueing or rearming work once teardown starts. Cancel daemon_work before flushing the shared workqueue so no already queued daemon instance can race with the free. Use timer_shutdown_sync() so a daemon instance that passed the shutdown check before teardown cannot rearm the timer afterward.

BITMAP_SHUTDOWN is a runtime-only state. Mask it out when reading and updating the llbitmap superblock so the shutdown state is never loaded from disk or persisted to disk.

Scores

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Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

ProductVersions
LinuxLinux
  • 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc to before c55aa6c17f019b6296952d336939891efa084c06Affected
  • 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc to before bb7f92d58fca9a9f06f3f51a82481c5f0bbbd46cAffected
  • 5ab829f1971dc99f2aac10846c378e67fc875abc to before 5553d64e01d9a995be6c3de38501c6dd4ceede3bAffected
LinuxLinux
  • 6.18Affected
  • before 6.18Not affected
  • 6.18.52 through 6.18.*Not affected
  • 7.2.6 through 7.2.*Not affected
  • 7.3 and laterNot affected

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